Traffic camera suit may impact cities across Ohio

7:26 AM,
Dec. 9, 2013

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A lawsuit challenging how Ohio's fourth-largest city hands out citations and fines to drivers caught speeding and running red lights on camera could impact other cities around the state with traffic cameras.

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to review a state appeals decision that said the city of Toledo had wrongly taken away jurisdiction from its municipal court with its administrative review process for drivers caught on camera.

The ruling stems from a class-action suit filed in 2011 against the city and a company makes the traffic cameras. ...